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Peace as a goal is an ideal which will not be contested by any government or nation, not even the most belligerent. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

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The ideal, without doubt, varies, but its enemies, alas, are always the same. ↗

— Jean Rostand

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To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ideal man whose image we have built up on the basis of a certain few. ↗

— Jean Rostand

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Well, marriage is a very important part of our culture and our society. If we want to have a hopeful and decent society, we ought to aim for the ideal. ↗

— Karl Rove

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The other aspect of idealism is the one which gives us our notion of the absolute Self. To it the first is only preparatory. This second aspect is the one which from Kant, until the present time, has formed the deeper problem of thought. ↗

— Josiah Royce

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Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth. ↗

— John Ruskin

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All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent. ↗

— John Ruskin

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It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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In government-directed economies, the collective takes priority over the individual. The moral ideal is equal results. That approach could not be further removed from the real world. ↗

— Paul Ryan

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